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With the process already advanced regarding the authorization of vaccines, it is time to define the first steps for their administration. On December 29, the conditional marketing of the pharmaceutical vaccine must be approved and it must arrive in our country at the beginning of January.
The first tranche can be used to vaccinate 300,000 people. Know where it will be stored.
The cost of the vaccine could reach 200 million euros
The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, said on Wednesday that the vaccine against COVID-19 should arrive in January. The vaccine will be free, optional and will be administered in the National Health Service (SNS). Regarding the hypothesis that the vaccine is being administered in health centers or large less decentralized vaccination centers, Marta Temido said that it would be through the SNS, pointing out two possible scenarios:
A first moment in which there will be a context of greater scarcity in access to vaccines and, therefore, in a similar way to what other countries have been planning, will be a more controlled scenario, but then we admit that throughout the year 2021 we will spend to a broader scope scenario with more doses available and also greater expansion of administration points.
In an extreme scenario at the end of the year it is possible to have a much more decentralized distribution than at the beginning
Marta Temido also admitted that the vaccination process will be long and that the Portuguese cannot "deviate from the regulations" to which they have become accustomed. The Minister of Health also said that “thewhat we estimate may be the global amount associated with vaccines for our country could reach 200 million euros and exceed 22 million doses of vaccines ”.
It is also known that the vaccine must be stored in Coimbra, a place that the Government has indicated for the general storage of all vaccines against COVID-19. Distribution throughout the country must be done by land on the mainland and by air to the Madeira and Azores regions.
According to the contract with the European Union, member states will receive 25 million vaccines in a first tranche that could reach up to 200 million. Today, the Pfizer vaccine has been approved in the UK.
Although this vaccine must be stored at very low temperatures (-70ºC), Pfizer guarantees that it can be stored for up to five days at higher temperatures, between 2 and 8ºC.
According to some information, the price of the vaccines will be:
- Pfizer: 17 euros per dose (2 doses required)
- Modern: 27 to 31 euros (2 doses required)
- Astrazeneca: 3 to 4 euros (2 doses required)
- Johnson and Johnson: 8.5 euros (1 dose)
- Vacina Sputnik V: 8 euros (2 doses)
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